SNN113680 - Historic Buildings Report: The Milking Parlour, Main Street, Upper Benefield, Northamptonshire, PE8 5AN

In May 2022, a programme of historic building recording was undertaken on the 19th century Milking Parlour which adjoins the grade II listed Ashley farmhouse, Main Street Upper Benefield, Northamptonshire, as a planning condition relating to is reconstruction and conversion for residential use. The Milking Parlour structure is aligned to the east to Ashley farmhouse, with walls of coursed limestone and rubble, a Collyweston slate roof to the main roof and a corrugated asbestos roof on the lean-to porch. The roof in the lean-to has spine beams. Access is by 2 single barn doors and 1 double cattle door in the centre, on the south elevation. On the north elevation are two wooden frame openings. The milking parlour has been adapted over time with the introduction of the lean-to porch, probably in C20.